Poser Debu: Just $50 (Read more...)

Poser Debut, the easiest way to start creating 3D art and animation at an incredibly affordable price of $50.

May be a good present for someone that is curious about Poser, animation or 3D, or for yourself if you wanted to start with Poser.

Smith Micro has created this new version of Poser that is a "lite" version of Poser Pro 2010. It has many of the features of Poser Pro 2010, while lacks of some. The biggest limitations it has is the limit to 2 threads while rendering and that you can't manually configure your render settings, although you can use the automatic render settings.

This is a limitation for the pro or the serious hobbyist, but Poser Debut is really cheap and is geared towards those people beginning in 3D. It really has lots of other features that make an excellent application and really worth buying.

The page of Poser Debut contains info and comparison between Poser Debut and other editions, so you can see what it's for and what features it has or is lacking.

If you never heard about Poser, check it too, there are lots of info in the same page:

http://poser.smithmicro.com/poser-debut/

You can also get it at Content Paradise, maybe it’s easier.

And if you finally purchase it, remember to visit my shop at Renderosity, you may like something.

Blender Used Illegally (Read more...)

Under the tittle of "Re-branding Blender", the Blender Foundation has published a heads up article in which they dennounce the illegal use of the source code of Blender and also the works of 3D artists by 2 websites.

Read the article at the Blender's Foundation site.

The most offending of all this is that they have deleted the credits of the people that code Blender, gave it  another name and sell it without saying a word about Blender. This clearly breaks the GPL license.

Not happy with this, they also took the images done by modelers and 3D artists at DeviantArt or the CGsociety, Wings 3D site and others and used them without permission on the sites of their fake products.

This is top fashion now: to live and make profit on other people's work. We saw this in the past with companies that used the virtual worlds of people to sell commercial solutions for others, without asking. Now we see it with Blender and the CG art of others.

What can I tell you? They are just parasites. People that do 3D art just want their money and attribution for what they do, and people who develop open source software like Blender just want their work to stay credited and open, and in the way of possible, the help of us all.

It is becoming too usual that some jerks make a business just based in working zero hours in a creative process and living from the talent of others. What world are they doing with this attitude? Obviously they are building a future of zero talent and maximum greed. But yeah, they don't care, they just care about their pockets.

Free Xfrog Plants Now Available (Read more...)

Xfrog offers free plant samples of their plant packs in the most common file formats like 3DS or OBJ and others. If you own the Xfrog 3.5 application, you can also edit them and make variations.

Check the news at XFrog Blog: http://www.xfrog.com/2011/01/130-free-xfrogplants-now-available/